Please feel free to ignore if this question is too personal—did you breastfeed? If you did, what was that experience like as an agender person? I know not all people experience gender/body dysphoria in the same way (speaking as an agender person who loves their boobs), but did it affect you at all?
HEy, so, I actually am glad you asked, because I'm glad to know there's interest in this topic!
If I'm being honest, I WANT to do a series of comics about my pregnancy as a nonbinary person. And hopefully, EVENTUALLY I want to cover the postpartum stuff as well. I'm obviously still in the thick of it, so we'll see but--that's the goal!
To answer your question very briefly (and I apologize in advance to not do it justice)
I AM breastfeeding and I do not experience dysphoria from my own body very much at all. I'm overall just a person who is very disconnected from my own body, in a sense. I think I have literally gone a whole week without looking in the mirror once - not because I hate how I look or anything, but because I simply don't think about it.
I don't know if this experience is unique or if it's the reason for my lack of dysphoria, but it seems relevant.
Anyway, for me the decision to breastfeed was entirely utilitarian. It's easier than making bottles, and it's nutritionally complete, so I don't have to worry about anything like choosing the 'right' formula. I was also comfortable with continuing to abstain from alcohol, etc, so I feel like it was just the simplest choice.
That's basically it! But maybe I'll do a more in depth comic about it later.
